Forster fire deliberately lit? Police, RFS investigate

POLICE believe a bushfire
which has burnt out 78 hectares of Booti Booti National Park, near
Forster, was deliberately lit.

Specialist crime scene officers and RFS investigators will examine the
area today to pinpoint the cause of the fire.

Police from Manning Great Lakes are appealing for public
assistance as inquiries continue.

About 1pm on Friday emergency services responded to a
bushfire on the eastern side of Lakes Way. The fire jumped the road and
continued to burn into further bushland causing a large amount of smoke on the
roadway.

A number of roads were closed including Green Point Drive, which
isolated the township of Green Point.

NSW Rural Fire Service managed to control the fire about 8.30pm,
and a short time later police escorted locals back to Green Point.